Justin Bieber blasts ‘fakeness’ of awards shows

His melancholy mood seems to have been prompted by two awards at last night's Billboard ceremony

The undisputed king of modern pop, Justin Bieber, has hit out at the “fakeness” of awards ceremonies.

Bieber, who won two awards last night at the Billboard Music Awards in the US, took to his Instagram account with an introspective tone this morning, writing: “I don’t know about these award shows..”

He said: “No disrespect to anybody at any of the shows or the people running it. Nothing but love for you guys and your support. But I don’t feel good when I’m there nor after. I try to think of it as a celebration but can’t help feeling like people are rating and grading my performance.

A photo posted by Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) on May 23, 2016 at 8:42am PDT

Bieber, who scooped Billboard gongs in the Top Male Artist and Top Social Media Artist categories, has accrued nearly three quarters of a million likes for his thoughts, which he collected under a picture of sheep grazing near some ruins.

He wrote: “I get the premise is to award people for their accomplishments, but is it really? Because when I look in the audience I see a bunch of fake smiles so that when the camera hits them they look happy. Sure there are people truly proud of others so I don’t want to knock them I’m just looking at the vast majority.”

“I just think to myself if I’m living my purpose I want the reward to be fulfillment. I’m getting awarded for the things that I’m doing and not for who I am which is understandable I know it would probably be hard to calculate and award someone’s spirit lol.”